From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bhikkhu Mettavihari" Subject: Re: download file Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:12:59 +0530 Message-ID: <2e35683f0809161742l1bac0340qca83a3ff3da6029@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e35683f0809161118q3153143kcc6221dc7dd27949@mail.gmail.com> <200809161132.05015.ben.kevan@gmail.com> <5f9618380809161152x334e7282g5fde3ac2b4f2f789@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=S1rGsiEHwOnIGNzUTIVoBUGPrFq8cszROvrofFHTk38=; b=AynRwqSjIJuLkFMibzLF9pMb7+4XlOYSTr7okRAMMASpUrmYJxxFM7me2briRYuF2/ 4Zqpstw2wfgf5jJCrJbDdNaTBdwJxTresecYkxhLKm0wW7qPojvf2RAm6ZIuWzJhcrV+ Peblya8lDGE5Xu7eRK0Pf1PNeFXz1WIVxP4vg= In-Reply-To: <5f9618380809161152x334e7282g5fde3ac2b4f2f789@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Linux Newbie Hi Ren=EA and Ben Thank you for the reply's On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Ren=EA wrote: > Are you getting this error because address contains the & character, > that it's used by shell to start proccess in background, > you can easily download file with wget by putting double quotes in ad= dress: > > wget "http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=3D214&ar=3D1050wmv&ak= =3DTY" > > or use \& instead &, like this: > > wget http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=3D214\&ar=3D1050wmv\&a= k=3DTY Thank you so much. I do get the file that wget is asking for. But as you might know I am trying to download the video file that is referenced to in this file If any one of you can help with that would be great. regards Mettavihari -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs